Andrew Lynch is a sociolinguist whose scholarship focuses on Spanish language in society; language variability; heritage language studies; and the situation of Spanish in the United States. He is author of Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Routledge, 2022); editor of Spanish in the Global City (Routledge Language Handbook series, 2020); and co-author of El español en contacto con otras lenguas (Georgetown University Press, 2009). In addition to these books, he has published more than forty refereed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, on topics ranging from sociolinguistic theory and methods in heritage language research, to Spanish language and globalization; political and ideological factors in the variation of Cuban Spanish; language attitudes toward Spanish and English in the US as well as Spanish and Catalan in Spain; the lexical and syntactic influence of English on Spanish bilingual discourse; historical perspectives on Latinidad in the US; the production and perception of literary texts by Latinx writers; and Spanish language use in the US-based mass media. He serves on the advisory boards of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at UT-Austin. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Heritage Language Journal (Brill Publishers) since 2013.

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University of Miami

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